Burden Quote by Cate Tiernan

“My whole life seemed to spill out into the river, swirling away from me, everything I had ever been or ever wanted to be.”

— Tim O'Brien

“The river and everything I remembered about it became a possession to me, a personal, private possession, as nothing else in my life ever…

— James Dickey

“Back there in the beginning, as I see now, my life was all time and almost no memory. Though I knew early of death,…

— Wendell Berry

“Going home at night! It wasn't often that I was on the river at night. I never liked it. I never felt in control.…

— V.S. Naipaul

“Life is much like a river. I can’t determine where the river comes from or where it’s flowing to. But I can immerse myself…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life-- like all…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Life is a river,' he once told me, 'and we all have to find a boat that floats.”

— Thad Carhart

“I mused that time is not only a river, but a river that constantly breaks its banks so you must flee from it as…

— Jens Christian Grøndahl

“Life is like the river, sometimes it sweeps you gently along and sometimes the rapids come out of nowhere.”

— Emma Smith

“had never traveled alone before and I discovered that I liked it. No one in the world knew where I was, no one had…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the…

— Richard Brautigan

“I think of what the lakes meant to me then and what they mean to me now. In the middle of the lake, I'm…

— Jessica J. Lee